Mr. Speaker, it is precisely because there have been trial runs of Canadian federalism, over and over again, that Quebec premiers from Jean Lesage up to Bourassa have been trying over and over again to gain control over occupational training. Just that. And the reason we are sovereignists is that we have seen federalism's inability to reform. For the good of the common people.
Does the minister acknowledge that, in this plan which we have all read, he is not only cutting social transfers but also dumping onto the provinces the burden of the long term unemployed, without any financial compensation for that burden, while at the same time retaining control over the unemployment insurance fund and its surplus in order to finance new federal initiatives?